Hi David My apologies for the delay in replying. I've been visiting my daughter in Palmerston North, some 500 km away and have had no internet access.
"dbneeley" <[email protected]> wrote: > Zed, > > I am very curious... > > After saying the "Ubu base has been wonderful" and "gotta love those Ubu > repositories!"--you moved to LMDE and hope it is the new standard for > Mint? The above was written by <[email protected]> in reply to a message from Roy <linuxcanuck@... > In what way, please, is it superior to the mainline Mint based on Ubuntu? If I may bring forward what I did actually say previously: > > I've used LinuxMint since v3.0 Cassandra but when Clem issued LMDE, with > > the warning that it was experimental, I decided to try it. There have > > been a few niggles but even I, lacking a technical bent, have managed to > > resolve them without too much hassle. Currently I am running LMDE 64bit > > on my desktop and LMDE 32bit on a Thinkpad T60. Both work well and I'm > > hoping that Clem and the development team decide to use Debian as the > > base for the main Mint edition. Why do I hope that Clem and the developers change over to a pure Debian base? Mainly because I like Debian with the Mint tools and the concept of a rolling release. I must stress that I am not a programmer; have only average computer skills; but so far have found it relatively painless to solve the very few problems I've had with LMDE. Whether I will feel the same way in, say 5 years time, when I'll be 85, I do not know :-) [snip] > Personally, I am thinking about going to a distro which has a continuous > upgrade model rather than the wholesale replacement every six months > approach. However, to do so I want to be sure I am not giving away other > very strong advantages that come with the Ubuntu constellation of > distros--such as so many apps being written to be compatible out of the > box without much fiddling to give just one example. I have a fairly old machine: ASUS motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+, 512MB Cache, 2BG RAM, and have had no compatability issues. Everything has just "worked out of the box". > I am also considering constructing some sort of installer script that will > re-install the various utilities and programs I have come to use commonly > so doing a complete version upgrade can be done in a somewhat more > foolproof method than trying to do it piece-meal. Way beyond my abilities :-( [snip] Again, my apologies for the long delay before replying. Zed -- Zed Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
